Determine whether feelings are friend or enemy
Emotions aren't either positive or negative. All emotions can be helpful sometimes and harmful at others.
Sadness is helpful when it reminds you to honor something or someone you lost. But it can be harmful if it tries to keep you from getting out of bed and tackling your day.
Anxiety is helpful when it talks you out of doing something dangerous. But it's not helpful when it keeps you from stepping outside your comfort zone in a positive manner.
So after you label your feelings, take a minute to identify whether that emotion is a friend or an enemy to you right now. If it's helpful, allow yourself to embrace that feeling fully. If it's not helpful, change how you feel by either changing the way you think (or what you're thinking about) or how you're behaving.
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